Reminiscences of Richard Lathers; sixty years of a busy life in South Carolina, Massachusetts and New York; . ook was (about 1814-1825) a guar-antee of its excellence and typographical accuracy. EvertDuyckinck was born in 1816, was graduated at Columbia Col-lege in 1835 and was admitted to the bar, but almost imme-diately went into literature. His brother George Long (whodied in 1862), was also bred to the law, and he also embracedthe profession of letters. Their father on his decease leftthem a fair income. Evert added to it by reviews, newspaperleaders, and critiques. Nearly all of his labor
Reminiscences of Richard Lathers; sixty years of a busy life in South Carolina, Massachusetts and New York; . ook was (about 1814-1825) a guar-antee of its excellence and typographical accuracy. EvertDuyckinck was born in 1816, was graduated at Columbia Col-lege in 1835 and was admitted to the bar, but almost imme-diately went into literature. His brother George Long (whodied in 1862), was also bred to the law, and he also embracedthe profession of letters. Their father on his decease leftthem a fair income. Evert added to it by reviews, newspaperleaders, and critiques. Nearly all of his labors are, therefore,ephemeral. But he was known throughout the United Statesto publishers, authors, and editors as a critic without malice orbias, impartial, just, discriminating, and with a style much likethat of Charles Lamb, whom, indeed, he much resembled in hisconstitutional shyness, unctuotis and quiet wit, sententious andclever conversation, and slight hesitation in speech. He wasin every respect a thoroughly genial man, and it is said thatno one ever saw him affected by ill temper. He had one of the. Ci S 25 — >, -^ jn y: bo >- S n OLD NEW YORK DAYS 53 choicest libraries in the State, and he may be said to haveHved in it. He resided during forty years at No. 30 CHntonPlace, which of late had queer surroundings for a man ofquiet and retiring habits. But he so disliked changes! Atthis residence in years gone by met a literary coterie known asthe Colonels Club, of which William Allen Butler was chair-man, and Cornelius Mathews, Henry T. Tuckerman, EdwardJ. Gould, Bailey Myers, Lowell, Fletcher Harper, and otherswere leading members. Its papers were published in the Liter-ary World—a publication like the London Athenaciun—whichbelonged to and was edited by the Duyckincks from 1846 to1853. In these papers first appeared several of William AllenButlers early poems, and notably the Sexton and Ther-mometer. Mr. Duyckincks house, like that of Rogers the banker-poet,in S
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